I downloaded...>> a little freeware program called CWShredder Version 1.59 and it blasted a worm that hijacked my PC in a similar way.Cheers
I had that.......>> Three days of research and unsuccessful attempts to delete before I realised that my original anti spyware program could do the job if I just configured it fully. That program was "Spybot Search And Destroy" and I had to get it to do a deep search of the registry before it removed everything.
i have had this, hijackthis and the cleaner along with ad-aware by lavasoft and spybot removed it perfectly.